vertical stabilizer
nounAeronautics.
the fixed vertical surface of an aircraft empennage, to which the rudder is hinged.
- Also called fin, vertical fin .
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How to use vertical stabilizer in a sentence
There was one very large and easily identifiable piece of debris floating, the vertical stabilizer.
MH370 Debris Is Lost Forever, Can the Plane Be Found Without It? | Clive Irving | September 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNot put on display in Recife was the one substantial piece of the A330 yet found, its vertical stabilizer.
British Dictionary definitions for vertical stabilizer
vertical stabilizer
noun
the US name for fin 1 (def. 3a)
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